On 4/30/2013 8:58 AM, tomw wrote:
If Whelan’s bill becomes law, electric car drivers would be saddled with
paperwork that includes tracking their mileage and reporting it to the state
Motor Vehicle Commission.
The way the laws are written in most states, you are responsible for
paying a tax on the *cost of fuel* for a motor vehicle for highway use.
If that fuel happens to be electricity, the tax will be very low,
because the cost of the fuel is very low compared to gasoline or diesel.
When I lived in Michigan and drove my ComutaVan, the State required that
I install a separate electric meter, and that I pay a "use tax".
This is how you pay sales tax on something that should have had sales
tax on it, but it was not collected at the time of sale. For example, a
farmer has his own gas storage tank for his tractor. He does not pay
sales tax on the gasoline in that tank, since it is for off-road use.
But if the farmer puts that gas in his normal car, he has to pay a use
tax on it.
Anyway, I dutifully filled out and submitted the forms (quarterly, per
instructions), with the trivial amounts due. After a year, they sent me
a letter saying not to bother to file; the sum collected wasn't worth
the State's time in paperwork to process it. (That was unusually
rational for the government).
--
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by
Frankenstein logic. -- David Russell
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Lee A. Hart, http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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